Litigation & enforcement partner Emerson Siegle spoke to Anti-Corruption Report about the current landscape on trade enforcement, commenting on the increase in enforcement by the federal agencies tasked with enforcing economic sanctions, export controls and customs laws.
Emerson noted that “there has been an escalation of enforcement” for sanctions, export control, and customs cases, including because of broad new tariffs that give rise to new duty evasion cases. He also noted that the risk companies face is not merely monetary, explaining, “sanctions and export controls are national security regulations, so the reputational impact of violating them can be outsized.”
The article is the second installment in a four-part primer on trade controls for compliance professionals. Anti-Corruption Report also spoke to Emerson for the first article in the series, which focused on the fundamentals of trade controls.
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